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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
Anchor, 1995
Pep in your step!
This is a put a pep-in-your-step writing book. It's really a book with instructions on having a WRITING life. I'm still in the thick of it but I've never laughed so hard or felt so motivated by a book to write.
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Some Things That Stay
Sarah Willis
Berkley Trade, 2001
Great Book Club Selection
In the spring of 1954, Tamara Anderson is fifteen when her family moves into the pretty farmhouse across the road from the tar-papered house. Tamara is the oldest of three children. Her father is a painter whose landscapes require new locations for inspiration. The ...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
A New Way to Look at Growing Your Business
"Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins was a real eye opener for me.
In this book, Jim Collins, observes 28 companies over the span of 5 years. Over this period of time 11 of the companies make the leap from "Good to ...
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
Anchor, 2000
Shocking but profound
In an e-mail exchange, a ministry colleague asked, "I have never read Anne Lamott. Do you recommend her?" I responded:
Knowing your heart for broken people and for Jesus, I can recommend "Traveling Mercies" to you without qualification. I have only about 16 feet ...
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story
David Einhorn
Wiley, 2008
The Einhorn v ALD saga
This is brief history of the dispute between David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital (stock ticker ALD). Mr. Einhorn details his research into ALD that culminated in a speech he gave at a charity event. Since the speech ALD has been attacking ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2007
A story of love and life...
Have you ever "carried a torch" for someone or knew someone who did? This book explores taking this type of an obsession to new extremes. I know it's a book about all kinds of love (romantic, illicit, parental, etc.) but the main thrust of the book is the unrequitted ...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Holt Paperbacks, 2002
It IS Realistic!
This was me! For those who reviewed the book and said that Ehrenreich was "unrealistic", I'm going to share my story. Several years ago my ex-boyfriend and I could have been in the book; we were each working a full-time job and he also had TWO part-time jobs at the ...
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
Made to Stick
Really love this book - one of the best actionable business books I've read in a long while.
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Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
HarperTrophy, 1987
As much song as story.
This makes the top ten list out of all the great picture books we read to our kids when they were young. I never tired of reading it. So simple, symmetric, even musical. The story? How does the peddler get the monkeys to give back all the caps they've stolen from ...
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Tale of ...
Kate Dicamillo
Candlewick, 2006
Marvelous
I have to read 4 Newbery Award books for a College Literature class I am taking this summer. This book has been the best so far! I have refound my LONG lost love for Children's literature! Read it aloud to a child and watch their eyes sparkle! It is wonderful! I am ...
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These High, Green Hills (The Mitford Years, Book 3)
Jan Karon
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997
Jan
Jan Karon books are GREAT. You get the feeling you know the people personally.
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A New Song (The Mitford Years, Book 5)
Jan Karon
Penguin Group, Inc, 2000
Typical !
Typical for Karon, this book seems to force me to go to the store and buy the next one.Unfortunately, I read much faster than she writes.
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The Boys Volume 2: Get Some TPB
Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
Dynamite Entertainment, 2008
An Absolute Must-Buy
The second edition of Garth Ennis' new comic series The Boys is absolutely sterling. Now that the first book has established who these characters are, what they do and what kind of world they're living in we start settling in to just what their day-to-day life ...
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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software ...
Joel Spolsky
Apress, 2004
Very interesting for every programmer
I bought this book for my husband who mostly sits 24-7 coding and even if he sleeps then he dreams in code.
This books is actually archive of Joel's messages (can i call it blog) on his website.
Easy and sometimes funny to read, also technical but at least smth ...
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More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of ...
Joel Spolsky
Apress, 2008
He'll definitely challenge a few of your industry practices and beliefs...
If you're a fan of the website Joel On Software, you will enjoy having so many of his postings in a single volume. More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and ...
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